Prozac for hormonal imbalance

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Hi, my question is regarding hormonalimbalance.
I am a healthy male of age 26. I had a very strong sex drive and libido, but two years back i took an anti depressant and after that my libido has never came back to normal. i have told this to my doctor and he is confused about this. he has asked me to get done several hormone tests which i did.

What did it turn out to be?
Does this sound like an actual hormonalimbalance? If so, what type? I've read about estrogen dominance/lack of progesterone, etc. I asked my naturopath about using progesterone cream but he said without knowing what my numbers are we could be making this worse, so I gotta wait till I get the panel done, but it's just worrisome!
What do you all think? Any ideas, stories if you've gone through something similar, etc.

Prozac has no medicinal effect on menopause, so I'm not for doctors trying to sedate you instead of treating you. You have a hormonalimbalance, and prozac doesn't treat that, so you'll still have one, you just won't care as much about it if it works. Now, you haven't been on it long enough for it to work, but if I were you, and I'm not, I'd look into natural methods of regulating hormonal fluctuations until you reach balance.

I have quit prozac cold turkey for 12 weeks andthen went on rmeron because the withdrawls were so horrible. My syptoms were: avibrating feeling, anxious thoughts that took over my entire mind, negative and depressed thoughts. I had some good days but mostly bad through that 12 week period. If I truley have a chemical imbalance wouldn't my brain always make me think anxious thoughts or depressed thoughts? Why did I have good days and bad?

So--have any of you ever heard that food might be related to your anxiety? Or maybe a hormonalimbalance (like too much estrogen, not enough progesterone)? I will be curious to hear your theories on this. I am still deciding if I want to get this test or not...or do both a hormone and allergy test.
Thanks!

I shared this with my OB/GYN and she felt I was experiencing anxiety (which is a form of depression) which in my case, is caused by a hormonalimbalance from the birth of my son.
She then put me on Paxil 20mg a day. I was able to sleep. And basically long for sleep any chance I get. I stopped taking my birth control pill about 2 months ago because I thought the hormones in them were causing me to have horrible night sweats.
Recently I've decided to ween myself off of Paxil. Since my Dr.

I was taking prozacfor the past four years and recently stopped taking it to see if that was causing it (maybe hormonal). I had one glorious week of no spotting or bleeding, now its back to bleeding all the time. My old Obgyn just kept brushing it off as well. What is wrong with these doctors?!?! This is obviously a somewhat common problem if that many women are complaining about this and for these docs to brush it off is completely irresponsible and Im sick of it.

Well now that I got off subject, sorry, what all would they do in the evaluation? I am pretty sure my imbalance is hormonal. I just am worried because i don’t have time to take out of classes to get all of this done.

The past 2 and a half years i've noticed that my pain is not as severe, however, my periods are still scanty and imbalanced, i at times miss a month. I presume this may be due the hormonalimbalance i was diagnosed with 3 years back or so (progesterone/estrogen) considering that i had what appeared to be lactation from my nipple.

Was a scan of the cervical spine done? Also, thyroid and parathyroid hormone levels have to be assessed .A hormonalimbalance may also cause headaches. Is your blood sugar well controlled? Is there any increase in blood pressure even in the absence of the headache? Were you eyes assessed for errors of refraction?
I suggest that a thorough work up be done. The scans may no show anything but blood tests and a complete physical examination may be needed to help rule out other systemic conditions.

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What in the world is going on with me? If this is hormonal then how can I fix it because I don't like feeling this way at all!
Does anyone else feel like this or am I the only crazy one here? Sometimes I've wondered if I'm getting close to Menopause but I've had blood work done less than a year ago and I guess everything was ok because they never called me back with my results and they only call you back if there's a concern or something.

Your symptoms are identicle to those listed for hypothyroidism but a person can feel hypothyroid even if labs are normal but antibodies are elevated.
My mother has been taking prozacfor years but she did not need it until she developed other illnesses, INCLUDING HYPOTHYROIDISM. TNT, don't feel that me or anyone else is putting a "stigma" on you because you take the Zoloft. Remember that many others out there take Antidepressants with their thyroid treatment.

So they made me think I was CRAZY So she gave me prozac and b/c the b/c made me sick so I stopped taking them and just kept going up in dose on the prozac and since it was helping w/the moods they also put me on lacmital for the moods.

In the past the doctors have treated her as ADHD and I know sometimes these two things go together. Is it possible that a child could be ODD and not ADHD also? I just don't think that my daughter has an atten deficiet/hyper problem and shouldn't be treated with the typical ADHD medication. Her problems seem to stem from an emotional or hormonal imbalance. Shouldn't this be treated with medication for depression or anxiety?

I also would like to add that I have tried a number of medications with no relief including Valium, Mcklezine, Diamox, Atenolol (caused my blood pressure to drop way too low), Prozac, Zoloft (I only used both of these for a short amount of time b/c Zoloft caused me to keep throwing up and Prozac just done nothing.

I now theres no good news to know if i have an hormonalimbalance, but on the other hand its so difficult to live with all this symptons, that i wish this is the explanation and with some meds to balance the thryoid i can feel well again.

I started with Paxil, that worked well, but was EXTREMELY tired, so after about 3 or 4 years switched to Prozac, which also worked for about 3 years. About 3 weeks after I delivered my 3rd baby, I had SEVERE and bizarre symptoms, felt like the prozac was NOT working at all, in addition to some insane OCD symptoms that I had NEVER had before---best described as "intrusive thoughts".

I went to an acupuncturist twice, and he could tell I had a major hormonalimbalance going on, and he wanted me to do acupuncture weekly since my problems were so severe, but I can't afford that, either, so I just went twice for treatment and taking the supplements. I totally blame my doctor for missing the mark on this one, and I just want to get back to normal as soon as possible!

I have tried everything from lexapro, celexa, Prozac, paxil, trazadone and nothing works for me except benadryl. It works wonders for me and it is a lot safer than any of the meds I have taken and with no side effects. It would be safe to try even if you are on lexapro. I take a full teaspoon of the liquid benadryl at bedtime or any time I feel my mind wondering to thoughts of death or my attacks. The symptoms i have are PMDD. Look it up and see if you have the symptoms. Ihope this helps.

So i surmise that if your fatigue is caused by a medical condition, for instance MS, thyroid, hormonal imbalance, autonomic dysfunction, hypoglycemia, diabetes, chronic pain etc. then drugs that target emotion are likely to not be on much help, if the fatigue you've got is not due to depression.
That's not to say, that if your medical condition has also an additional component of depression, the drugs wouldn't be helpful, just that it may not be as helpful as you would like for the fatigue.

AndiJ78- After leaving her office I already started looking around for another doctor for a second oppion but no one can squeeze me in till the end of the year(October, December and one said January). I went to an emergency clinic to get seen and thinking that's what I did wrong. The doctor was not very supportive about my situation and made me feel she was a little against breast feeding and made a snarky comment about me delivering natural when I told her I was having hemroids(sorry tmi).

I happily take her out for lots of nice dinners in restaurants, which she clearly enjoys -- while she gives me tea, wheat bread and cole slaw in her kitchen. I gave her a nice sweater and some earrings for Christmas, I got a pair of socks, chocolate and some soap (yes!). (I don't care about the money, it's the care and consideration.) I take lots of photos of her; she has yet to take one of me unless I ask.

I am learning about natural supplements and this has really helped! I want to share it with you! I was on Paxil for bad PMS and hormonalimbalance, chemical brain imbalance and depression. I started taking GH3 made by a company called Gero-Vita. Try a natural medical clinic to try and find this stuff, it's worth it! I take one at night and one in the am.... sometimes one in the afternoon if my withdrawl symptoms flare up while I am weaning off of the Paxil.

My GP doesn't think it's causing this stuff, but says the neuro may see something she has missed. We'll see.
I feel like my problem is either hormonal, or more likely a neurotransmitter imbalance or something. I am concerned, but don't really feel "anxious" much. Most people who have concerns or normal stress in their lives don't have all this weird stuff!! What the hay?? Later on I'm going to make a different post what I think MAY be causing my arms to fall asleep.

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